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Monday, March 28, 2011

Pitla 0r Zunka bhakari a very staple food of Maharashtra. Its made most of the time in a week. You also get in many restaurants. Zunka is curry type and made of besan flour and other spices. Bhakari is a roti made with Jowar flour.

If you find difficult to add bean to boiling water then make take the besan , add water make a smooth lumps fee paste. You can add this directly to the pan and adjust the water consistency as you like.

Pitla /Zunka Bhakari & Bhadang recipe goes to PJ's Flavors of Maharashtra event which was started by Naina.& Gayathri's Walking through the memory lane event.

Monday, March 14, 2011

Brown rice bisi bele bath (BBB) is very famous rice dish in Karnataka. Its Healthy, tangy, sweet and delicious rice dish. Usually it make with white rice(click here to see the recipe). I have used brown rice as its very healthy and taste good too.

In a bowl add tamarind and jaggery, water and keep it for 15-20 minutes. Pressure cook the toor dal, rice and little turmeric powder with lot of water. If you are using fresh veggies, potato then at the same time you can cook them in pressure cooker.

Heat the pan with ghee/ oil, add cumin seeds let them splutter. Add onion and fry till they run light brown. Add green chilies and fry for few more minutes. Add coconut, red chili powder, turmeric powder, bisi bele bath powder and mix everything well. Add tamarind and jaggery water, all verggies, potato and give an nice mix. Add dal & rice, salt and give a nice mix. (At this point check the seasoning you want more spicy then you can add). Add little water and cook till comes boil.

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Misal with Tarri , kat or Gravy is very famous dish in Maharashtra specially Kolhapur misal is very famous.Its spicy mixture of Moong bean sprouts curry, Potato sabji , Poha , Kara/ farsan and Tarri which is very important ingredient.

Heat the pan with oil, add minced garlic, ginger and fry for till they turn light brown. Add sliced onion and fry till they turn brown and soft. Add tomatoes and fry for few minutes. turn of the heat and let it cool. In the mixer/ blender add above made onion masala, dry coconut, garam masala, chili powder and grand till the smooth paste.

Heat the pan with 4-5tsp oil, add above made masala paste and cook till the oil starts to loosing from the masala. At this point you can add red chili powder, salt. Add water and cook till it comes to boil. (Tarri will be watery consistency).

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Kitchen is my Kingdom. I Enjoy making and eating with my Family and my Friends. My "Husband" is a biggest Inspiration to me. In my blog I am posting my mom’s recipes and also some new recipes from world.

In this blog you can also see Karnataka (south and north) and Maharastra recipes.